Alyssa VanPelt-Cathcart, Staff Writer
The 2025 Juried Student Show held their reception Thursday, April 10, 2025, in the Martin-Mullen Art Gallery. The theme for this year is “Timeless Art.” The artwork at the show was a variety of digital work, hand-drawn, sculptures, and photos. Additionally, there were animations for viewing.
Mordue Fox Reinhardt is a current BFA student with a concentration in studio and digital art. He has been creating art for as long as he can remember, it was always a part of his life. According to Reinhardt, “the Juried Student Art Show is a gallery showing in the Martin-Mullen art gallery which aims to show and celebrate the works of selected SUNY Oneonta students, some of whom receive awards for their pieces.”
Reinhardt had three works selected for the show by his professors. Professor Madeline Silber selected one of his projects from her Drawing 1 class and professors Rhianna Hogan-Cerro and Sven Anderson selected two other works that he did for their Digital Painting class. When asked, “what is a digital painting,” Reinhardt replied: “A digital painting is a painting created in a digital art software, or by some other digital means. It’s not too different from a real painting, in that you apply the same basic principles to get a similar result. The only real differences are the access to a wide range of brushes, textures and simulated materials used within the program. It’s still painting, but it’s more accessible, depending on the limitations of your chosen software. I use Clip Studio Paint, and while it’s more directed toward comic artists and illustrators (my usual work) I find it to be just as good for painting.” Additionally, he’d like readers to know, “this is not to be confused with images created by generative AI, which, for the record, are not art and I believe describing them as such is an insult to humanity.” Many artists, regardless of their medium, would feel similarly about A.I. art.
Reinhardt’s digital painting, Still Life, is a collection of “random items” from his dorm room that were arranged in a somewhat interesting way. The box in the image had a really frustrating pattern to replicate. However, his favorite part was doing the plant. A current project Reinhardt is working on is a sixteen-page comic called Columba Interfectorem. It is a short, out of context scene from a table-top RPG game he is running based on a world he created called Yoelmachus. For context, Reinhardt explains their world, sharing, “It’s an odd mix of all the things I like: cosmic horror, gothic horror, pre and post apocalyptic science fiction, diesel-punk and a little bit of high fantasy. Yoelmachus is a lonely little continent surrounded by an impassable sea of black liquid, floating along somewhere in the cosmos. In its present state, it has an absolutely asinine government most easily described as a tetrarchy consisting of four “Lords,” with the addition of a Pontiff acting as a hegemonic fifth. It’s a breeding ground for all manner of vile, fascistic, industrialist creatures. The Yoelmachian Church has no pantheon or God. Its followers, often highly educated individuals, worship the Cosmos– which is seen as the source of all magic, blessings and curses. Aside from the Church, the other four sects are split between academics, military, justice and trade.”
Reinhardt is an exceptionally creative individual. His current goal is to keep improving technically and stylistically. He would love to have the time dedicated to working on a comic or video game based on Yoelmachus. He had considered the idea of attending graduate school. However, he still has more time at SUNY Oneonta, so there is no rush. The gallery is still running from now until the third of May, so please visit to see the other incredible works of over seventy students.
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